Postcolonial Maghreb and the Limits of IR

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This book explores narratives produced in the Maghreb in order to illustrate shortcomings of imagination in the discipline of international relations (IR). It focuses on the politics of narrating postcolonial Maghreb through a number of writers, including Abdelkebir Khatibi, Fatema Mernissi, Kateb Yacine and Jacques Derrida, who explicitly embraced the task of (re)imagining their respective societies after colonial independence and subsequent nation-building processes. Narratives are thus considered political acts speaking to the turbulent context in which postcolonial Maghrebian Francophone literature emerges as sites of resistance and contestation. Throughout the chapters, the author promotes an encounter between narratives from the Maghreb and IR and makes a case for the kinds of thinking and writing strategies that could be used to better approach international and global studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Introduction: Making the Case for Re-imagination (Jessica da Silva C. de Oliveira)....Pages 1-20 Narrative IR, Worldly IR (Jessica da Silva C. de Oliveira)....Pages 21-64 Postcolonial Literature and the Task of (Re-)imagining the Maghreb (Jessica da Silva C. de Oliveira)....Pages 65-90 History and Narration as Weapons of Decolonization: Kateb Yacine’s Nedjma (Jessica da Silva C. de Oliveira)....Pages 91-136 Language and the (Im)possibility of Translation in Derrida’s Monolingualism of the Other and Khatibi’s Love in Two Languages (Jessica da Silva C. de Oliveira)....Pages 137-173 East and West Encounters and Double Critique in Fatema Mernissi’s Writings (Jessica da Silva C. de Oliveira)....Pages 175-210 IR and the Need for Re-imagination: Concluding Remarks (Jessica da Silva C. de Oliveira)....Pages 211-221 Back Matter ....Pages 223-230